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Message: <blockquote data-quote="Zustiur" data-source="post: 6020056" data-attributes="member: 1544">As I see it, there are two key facts, and one key question:Fact: There will be printed books (WotC will publish them)Fact: There will be PDFs of those booksQuestion: Will WotC be the one publishing those PDFs, or will there only be pirated copies?What I'd like to see is:Book costs $XPDF costs $X/2Book includes a one-time-use voucher to purchase the PDF at $X/4 (or maybe $X/3. I'm not sure on costing here...)A subscription service which lets you preview a book online (not as a PDF) a limited number of times, and makes some portions of every book available for the duration of your subscription. e.g. contents, index, any 'core' rules which are expected to be included in all games.Where X is the current suitable market value for such a book.AND by having a legitimate purchased copy in your customer account inventory, you can download it any time in the future, AND they continually update the PDFs with errata. Updating PDFs with errata is the best way of providing your legitimate customers with a better experience than the pirates.I believe there are ways to mark up a PDF to show who bought it. Use that to track which copies are legit, and which have been pirated. Do not do ANYTHING else which could impact on the freedom of the legitimate customer.Ultimately; I look at pirated copies as free advertising. The more accessible your product is, the greater your audience. Get enough pirates into your game, they're bound to buy a legit product eventually; especially if the price is appropriate. I credit Steam (and Steam sales) for a significant impact in pirating of games. Why bother pirating a hacked version which might be missing content when I can buy the real product for $3 and have it kept up to date automatically?</blockquote>

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